IPhoto by Default opens when card reader is attached?

I would like to find out how to disable iPhoto from automatically opening when ever a memory card is inserted into the reader.

Lillanne,
You can stop this by opening Image Capture in your Applications folder. Go into its Preferences under the General tab and change the: "When a camera is connected, open:" to No Application.
Hope this helped!
Sam

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Hi, well as the title states:
How do i stop iPhoto from automatically opening when I connect my iPhone?
It's getting on my nerves...
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I have been suffering from a weird problem for a while: once in a while iPhoto refused to import images from an SD card and hung with the color wheel spinning until the next reboot. If interested, the original thread is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3308591?tstart=0
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I can still import into iPhoto when simply copying the files to hard disk and importing from there. In contrast to what I described in the thread linked above, iPhoto now recognizes already imported images.
Any hints how to solve this are really appreciated!
All the best,
Thomas.
EDIT: This reads just like this one:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15860473#15860473
so at least I'm not alone with this problem.

Phil:
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brianbjork wrote:
The reason I like the move command so much is that I know when photos are on my memory cards that the are not on my computer.
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brianbjork wrote:
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